Mette Fredriksen: Greenland is not for sale

Man charged – stopped with knives outside Haga Castle

A knifeman who was arrested outside Crown Princess Viktoria’s residence Haga Castle in Solna is now being prosecuted.

He was arrested outside the castle on December 4 and has been in custody since then.

At the time of his arrest, he was carrying several items, including knives.

The preliminary investigation is led by Säpo.

A full-sized football hall has collapsed

The large football hall Airdome in Karlstad has collapsed, reports say NWT.

The reason is the snow storm of the last day.

The roof consists of a tent cloth, which in the end could not hold up the weight of the snow and collapsed.

– It has been a crisis for the past 24 hours, says Karlstad Football CEO Thomas Andersson to the newspaper.

Death of Jean-Marie Le Pen

Former leader of the French National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, is dead. The family told AFP.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was a controversial French politician. He founded the nationalist party National Fronten in 1972 and led it until 2011.

In the same year, daughter Marine Le Pen took over the party leadership post.

Jean-Marie was expelled from the National Front in 2015, after a series of heavily criticized statements. Among other things, he has called the Holocaust during the Second World War a “detail”, and called on France to cooperate with Russia to save the “white world”.

Employee has fallen several meters at industry

The police are on the scene at an industry in Vimmerby due to a suspected workplace accident.

An employee at the industry must have fallen several meters. The person has been taken to hospital by ambulance. The extent of the damage is unclear.

The police are taking investigative measures at the scene and talking to witnesses.

Task: Anchor found on the bottom of the Baltic Sea

The anchor suspected of destroying cables on the bottom of the Gulf of Finland has been found and salvaged, according to the Finnish broadcasting company EPN.

According to this information, the anchor must have been salvaged by the Swedish submarine rescue vessel HMS Belos.

The vessel Eagle S is suspected of having dragged the anchor on the seabed and thus damaged several important underwater cables, whereupon the anchor was said to have dislodged and disappeared into the sea. Finnish authorities said on Friday that they had identified several places where the anchor was suspected to be.

Gun violence in Sweden is decreasing

The fatal gun violence in Sweden is decreasing for the second year in a row, the police announce.

In 2023, the number of people killed in shootings was 54 and the number of injured 108 – in 2024, the number of deaths was 44 and 57 injured, respectively.

– Our assessment is that the reduction is due to our increased ability to prevent and ward off acts of violence, says Johan Olsson, head of the police’s national operational department, Noa.

But even though the number of fatal shootings has decreased, the level of conflict is still high in Sweden.

– We see this not least through the recruitment that takes place in digital environments, says Johan Olsson.

Three are charged with the bag murder

Three people are now charged with the murder of Ako.

He was found dead in a bag on Värmdö in March last year.

A 25-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man are charged with murder and grave breach of privacy.

– The crime victim is a man who had a relationship with the woman. We allege that he comes to the woman’s home and is beaten and stabbed there, and that he dies as a result of a deep cut to his throat, says Cecilia Tepper, senior prosecutor in Stockholm.

After Ako was murdered, according to prosecutors, he was bagged and put in a bag.

A 26-year-old man, the woman’s brother, is also charged with aggravated protection of a criminal. According to the suspects, he is said to have helped the murder suspects to flee the country.

At least 95 dead in earthquake in Tibet

At least 95 people are now reported to have died in the earthquake in Tibet, Chinese state media reports.

At least 130 people are said to be injured.

According to China’s geological agency CENC, the earthquake that occurred on the night of Tuesday measured a magnitude of 6.8.

Man arrested – assaulted prostitute woman

The police went to a hotel in Stockholm on Tuesday morning when a woman stated that she sold sex in the hotel and was abused by the man she met.

The man was arrested by the police in the hotel room, and is now suspected of illegal threats, attempted assault and buying sex.

Donald Trump Jr lands in Greenland

On Tuesday, Greenland will be visited by US president-elect Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. He lands on the Danish island at 2 p.m., according to TV2.

Father Donald Trump states on Truth Social that the son travels there to “visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights”.

Trump also writes that he hears that the people of Greenland support him, and that the island should be taken over by the United States.

“Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit enormously if, and when, it becomes part of our nation. We will protect it, and nurture it, from a very evil outside world. MAKE GREENLAND GOOD AGAIN!”, he writes.

The future president’s advisor Elon Musk has also commented on the Greenland visit on X:

“The Greenlandic people have to decide their own future, and I think they would like to be part of America,” writes Musk.

Tesla takes sign dispute to new court

Tesla got the nob all the way to the Supreme Court. But the electric car giant is not giving up. Now the company wants the administrative court in Karlstad to compel the Swedish Transport Agency to somehow hand over the license plates to Tesla, writes the newspaper Dagens Arbete.

The background is that the unions put up a blockade against the postal companies that send out the signs to the American electric car company.

The one legal track that ends with the Supreme Court rejected all of Tesla’s appeals. The company then chooses to go through the administrative courts.

The primary conflict between IF Metall and Tesla has been going on since October 2023. The union demands that the company sign a collective agreement.

Syria resumes flights from Damascus

Today, Syria’s airport in Damascus will resume international flights for the first time since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown in December, writes Al Jazeera.

No flights have taken off since pro-Assad forces abandoned the capital’s airport on December 8.

Fire in mountain cabin in Storhogna

Early on Tuesday morning, the emergency services responded to a fire in a mountain cabin in Storhogna in Jämtland, near Klövsjö and Vemdalsfjällen, which Östersunds-Posten was the first to report on.

There were people in the house but, according to what the police told TT, they must have woken up from smoke and got out of the house. Someone or a few must have been affected by the smoke, but the extent of the damage is unclear.

At least 30 dead in earthquake

At least 32 people are said to have been killed and dozens more injured in a powerful earthquake that hit a hard-to-reach region of the Himalayas in Tibet, state-controlled Chinese media reported on Tuesday. Many buildings are said to have collapsed.

According to China’s geological agency CENC, the magnitude should have been 6.8, while the US geological agency USGS states that the figure was 7.1.

The quake is said to have also been felt in neighboring Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, and in parts of India.

According to the state news agency New China, “local authorities are in contact with the affected localities to assess the impact of the earthquake”.

In April 2015, Nepal was hit by an earthquake that claimed nearly 9,000 lives and destroyed over half a million houses.